Newton Cemetery & Arboretum

Address
791 Walnut St
Newton, MA 02459 United States Get Directions
Phone 617-332-0047
Website https://www.newcemcorp.org/

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  • Horticultural Tour at Newton Cemetery

    Newton Cemetery & Arboretum 791 Walnut St, Newton, MA, United States

    Join us for a summertime tour through the winding roads of Newton Cemetery & Arboretum. This tour will take you along the ponds and streams of the Cemetery showcasing our perennial gardens. Come to learn [...]

  • Horticultural Tour

    Newton Cemetery & Arboretum 791 Walnut St, Newton, MA, United States

    Join us for a walk along the ponds and streams of the Cemetery showcasing our perennial gardens. Learn about the Arboretum’s ecological diversity from shade gardens and wetland areas, to pollinators. All ages encouraged to [...]

  • Walking Tour: Artists and Authors at Newton Cemetery

    Newton Cemetery & Arboretum 791 Walnut St, Newton, MA, United States

    Walking Tour: Artists and Authors at Newton Cemetery Tuesday, July 14 6:00 – 7:30pm Newton has been home to creative people throughout history, and many are laid to rest in Newton Cemetery. During this new [...]

    $15

  • Artist Talk: The Memory Quilt

    Newton Cemetery & Arboretum 791 Walnut St, Newton, MA, United States

    Join Newton Cemetery & Arboretum's 2025-26 Artist-in-Residence Kasey Kaufman for a talk on her Memory Quilt Project, an evolving series of mixed-media works composed of intimate “memory tiles” built from fragments—images of nature, place, objects, [...]

  • Spring Tree Tour

    Newton Cemetery & Arboretum 791 Walnut St, Newton, MA, United States

    Take a Sunday Stroll through Historic Newton Cemetery & Arboretum. This winter was one for the record books. Welcome Spring with the Cemetery’s Arborists and a guided tour. See how the plantings in the arboretum, [...]

  • Tour: Mourning and Memory at Newton Cemetery

    Newton Cemetery & Arboretum 791 Walnut St, Newton, MA, United States

    Experience the historic Newton Cemetery, an important example of 19th-century rural cemetery design, and learn about the art and culture of mourning in the Victorian Era. We will see a variety of elaborate funeral monuments [...]

    $15 – $20

  • Horticultural Tour at Newton Cemetery

    Newton Cemetery & Arboretum 791 Walnut St, Newton, MA, United States

    This tour will take you along the ponds and streams of the Cemetery showcasing our perennial gardens. Come to learn about the Arboretum’s ecological diversity from shade gardens, and wetland areas, to pollinators. All ages [...]

  • Who Inspired Our School Names? A Newton Cemetery Tour

    Newton Cemetery & Arboretum 791 Walnut St, Newton, MA, United States

    Stroll through the Newton Cemetery and learn more about the namesakes of many of our city’s elementary and middle schools. Learn about their lives and see the final resting places of Dr. Henry Bigelow, Isaac [...]

    $10 – $15